The Frankfurt School regarded workers as paralyzed by conformist tendencies and unable to discern the source of their grievances in the capitalist system. One of its tasks during and after the 1930s was to explain the illusions that drove both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie not just to conformity but also to barbarism and the destruction of European civilization. For the next forty years, the Frankfurt School engaged in criticism of nearly every aspect of capitalist society.
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